Ben Boyter
Principle Technical Lead at Kablamo
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Boyter is a principal technical lead and founder with 15 years building search-driven, cloud-native platforms and developer tools from Sydney. He architects and ships full-stack systems in C#, Java, Go and Python, with deep operational experience in AWS, DevOps automation and large-scale code search — founding searchcode which indexes over 75 billion lines of code and serves 300k+ users monthly. At Kablamo he combines hands-on engineering and technical leadership, while earlier roles at ninemsn and Lend Lease honed his expertise in CMS, APIs, CI/CD and BI. He’s an active open-source contributor (notably backend work on DuckDuckGo Instant Answers integrations) and has a knack for pragmatic problem-solving across search engines, testing and CAPTCHA systems. Collected experience across startups and enterprise gives him a rare blend of product-minded ownership and low-level systems craft.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Penrith High SchoolBachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at Charles Sturt University Exchange with Heilongjiang University HarbinBachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at Charles Sturt University
Stackoverflow
889reputation
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4answers
6questions
Github Skills (16)
apim10
duckduckgo10
api10
perl10
instantsearch9
regular-expression9
javascript8
json7
code-search-engine6
static-files6
php6
playframework6
routes6
code-search6
asmx6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
May 2012 - Jun 2012
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 9 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the backend logic for the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers project. They focused on integrating the SearchCode API, modifying Perl scripts, and updating the triggers for different search terms. Their work involved adapting to API version changes and refining the code search functionality, resulting in a more robust integration with the external API. They also implemented specific keyword matching for different search queries.
javascriptinstant-answersperlduckduckgohandlebars-js
boyter/hashit
May 2019 - Sep 2022
A cross platform tool to compute hashes of files quickly. Similar to hashdeep.
Contributions:4 releases, 127 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 5 months
hashdeephashmd5sumsha1sumsha256sum
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